Definition for REL'E-VANCE, or REL'E-VAN-CY

REL'E-VANCE, or REL'E-VAN-CY, n. [See Relevant.]

  1. The state of being relevant, or of affording relief or aid.
  2. Pertinence; applicableness.
  3. In Scots law, sufficiency to infer the conclusion.

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